Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Dear Mr Stephen Hawkins


I guess I am a bit confused now.

Because even though I have had phases when I did or did not believe in God, this time would particularly be different. Essentially because I have a lot of respect for you. And your recent conclusions of the fact that the creation of universe may be a random act – throws things off balance for me.

I have never been religious. I think I have been spiritual, but again, I am not quite sure. I mean, to me God has never been the way Abrahamic religions interpret, you know our look alike (or we being his look alike, whichever), and who creates sons and spirits and angels etc. When some power has a job of birth-maintenance-destruction of this universe – and God-knows-how-many-other universes, with so many billions of planets and galaxies and stars, so many dimensions, black holes and the whole work… I have always believed that creating sons and spirits would not normally be a priority. And I have always been happy to think of ourselves as insignificant little pieces of creation of a mighty power, lost in the huge cosmos, trying to steer through this complex phase called life while trying to make meaning of a few things – significant or not.

And now Sir, you have deduced that this might be a random act of creation. No God behind it all. NO GOD? I mean, how can this universe be like this if there weren’t any power behind to start it in the first place? Come on sir; I understand that The Power (or God) must love to play with huge balls of gas, hydrogen, helium and all those yet to be discovered metals and rocks and fire, hitting them against each other from time to time, creating new stuffs and breaking them, altering gravitational forces and all those super scientific stuffs that we can’t even think of – and normally creation of life in this insignificant solar system, as probably a random result of all those cosmic experimentation, might have escaped notice or might not have interested The Power sufficiently… but to overrule the fact that there isn’t any power behind creation of universe – that is pretty demoralising.

My petty mind thought that to initiate a process, there must be an initiator. But now, I seriously don’t know what to think.

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